Question

Which action by president Andrews Johnson has the greatest impact on reconstruction?

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

After doing the ressearch about Johnson's actions, the one that surely brought a huge impact on reconstrution was that he granted amnesty to former Confederate soldiers.

Answer 2

Andrew Johnson, 1808-1875, became the 17th President of the United States from 1865 to 1869 after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A member of the Democratic Party, he became President at the end of the Civil War and was faced with the challenge of establishing peace and restoring the nation. Because of this, he instituted a plan called the Reconstruction, which sought to res-establish the link between the conflicting North and South. In order to do this, Johnson took several actions that led to one fatal conclusion; rebirth of conflict in the North against the South because of the President´s policies. The main action that Johnson proposed and enacted and that affected Reconstruction most strongly was the pardoning of white southerners who had participated in the Civil War, except the Confederate leaders, and also the reinstatement of the right by Southerners to establish their own governments in which black people were again denied any rights or involvement. In the end, Johnson´s policies allowed for the passing of what is known as the Black Codes, which curtailed any freedom on the part of black people, denying them autonomy and any legal rights, which in the end forced them to return to their previous lives in plantations. Because of his actions, Johnson even ended up being impeached by the House of Representatives until he left office in 1869.